Mary is 17 years and aspires to be nurse someday. She is from a home of five children. Her older brother stayed at home after completing high school. Due to lack of funds, he could not go to college. Mary stands to suffer a similar fate. She is distracted because she is being sent home because she cannot pay her tuition fees. Mary’s worries were added to when her father died suddenly in 2014.
A little over 5% of the population of Brong Ahafo region in Ghana are able to go beyond secondary school.
1 in 1000 has attained post-graduate education.*
The Region has the lowest proportion of regional population (1.3%) in post-secondary education.
Only 5 of 27 districts in Brong Ahafo Region have 5% of households who own laptops and/or desktop computers. (*2010 census)
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